Kashmir
Iconic Week Festival: Kashmir Varsity VC presides over 'Sufiyana Mehfil'
Srinagar/IBNS: The University of Kashmir on Sunday organised a seminar and a ‘Sufiyana Mehfil’ in connection with the celebration of the Iconic Week Festival.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kashmir, Prof Talat Ahmad, presided over the day-long seminar ‘Shaikh-ul Alam (RA): An embodiment of Kashmir’s syncretic culture’ at the main campus.
The seminar was organised by the J&K Higher Education Department and the University of Kashmir.
The event also presented a recitation of ‘Kalam-i-Shaikh-ul-Aalam’.
In his presidential address, Prof Talat described Kashmir as a place whose traditions of tolerance was embodied by personalities like Shaikh-ul-Aalam (RA).
“Shaikh-ul-Aalam (RA) was not only a social reformer but also a naturalist whose thinking process was very advanced,” he said.
Chairman of Centre for Shaikh-ul-Aalam Studies (CSAS), Prof GN Khaki, described Shaikh-ul-Aalam (RA) as a figure of immense significance who inaugurated a new age of communal harmony in Kashmir while promoting the ideas of the oneness of mankind.
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